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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2991
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2008 - 02:59 pm: | 
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Donna Ricco has been a successful fashion designer for a long time — but it took Michelle Obama to make her famous.
On Wednesday, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama took a turn as co-host of TV talkfest “The View.” When the show’s audience saw her breezy, black-and-white, high-waisted print dress designed by Ricco, they had to have it. Virtually overnight, the dress all but sold out at the White House/Black Market boutiques that sell it for an affordable $148...
Full story: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/25280708/ |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6979
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2008 - 04:39 pm: |
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Is this a woman thang?
Fellas, how many of you have ever seen, say, Colin Powell on tv and said, "Oooh! I just got to buy me a tie like that!" |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6980
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2008 - 04:40 pm: |
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Why would you want to have clothes just like what somebody else was wearing? |
Ferociouskitty
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Username: Ferociouskitty
Post Number: 249
Registered: 02-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, June 20, 2008 - 11:08 pm: |
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I'm a woman, and I don't understand it at all. |
Carey
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Username: Carey
Post Number: 805
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 12:46 am: |
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I bet ain't no black women running out and buying one. If anything they are trying to sell that thang. Black women will go home if they see someone in "their" dress...and never wear it again...well, in that city.
You know white women are funny. They will do the bump on the dance floor with another white women.
They will sell their body for a black man and go around the corner and call him a N**ger.
If a lady of mine said she was going to buy a dress like Mrs. Obama, I would tell her that I was going to start talkin' like Al Sharpton and dressing like Daffy Duck. |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 10085
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 07:09 am: |
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I hope Michelle has an endorsement deal or is getting getting some sort of royalty for helping to hock Ricco wear. |
A_womon
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Username: A_womon
Post Number: 2294
Registered: 05-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 08:28 am: |
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Politicians and their wives are not allowed to accept endorsement deals while running for or while in office else they will be accused of having special interests should that company donate money to their campagne or endorse them in some way.
And you can't collect royalties unless you have a contract with a vested interest. |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 10089
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 09:02 am: |
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Too bad. Because Michelle just gave Rossi about 10 million bucks of free advertising.
Hope she can get paid on the backend 8 years from now. |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2992
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 09:31 am: |
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No, I am a Black woman and I would never buy a dress I saw somebody wear on TV (or anyplace else). But then again, I demonstrated my lack of fashion forwardness on the SATC/shoe thread!
BTW, it is interesting that Michelle O is being compared to Jackie O in her fashion sense. I hope that starts folks talking about the designer of Jackie Bouvier's famous wedding gown: http://www.toastandstrawberries.com/threadsoftime/annlowe_dress.htm |
Ferociouskitty
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Username: Ferociouskitty
Post Number: 253
Registered: 02-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 01:59 pm: |
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But then again, I demonstrated my lack of fashion forwardness on the SATC/shoe thread!
Nothing some Apple Bottom jeans and a baby tee won't cure!
I keed.
But seriously, you've got a frame like Michelle Obama's. You could rock her look! Just have the Mister call me around your bday time, and I will make sure he hooks you up. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12342
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 08:36 pm: |
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Imitation is the sincerist form of flattery but I certainly find it ludicrous that women would run out and buy a dress that looks like the one worn by someone well-known!  |
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